Cryonics in the News of Late
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of at least the brain following death, leaving open the possibility of restoration to life in a future in which molecular nanotechnology and total control of cellular biochemistry are mature industries. As individuals, each of us is the data of the mind, no more, no less, and that data is stored in the form of fine physical structures, most likely those of the synapses connecting neurons. If that structure is preserved sufficiently well, then the individual is not yet gone - only ceased for the moment. Early cryopreservations involved straight freezing to liquid nitrogen tempera...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error, Continued: The New FITNET Trial for Kids
This reportorial conflict-of-interest was not disclosed in the BBC story itself.
(In fact, the Countess of Mar, a member of the House of Lords and a longtime advocate for ME/CFS patients, has filed a formal complaint with the BBC to protest its biased reporting on FITNET-NHS. In her complaint, she noted that “the BBC coverage was so hyperbolic and it afforded the FITNET trial so much publicity that it was clearly organised as a counter-punch to the anti-PACE evidence which is now gaining world-wide attention.”)
As a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, cognitive behavior therapy is grounded in an unproven hypothesis...
Source: virology blog - November 22, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary Information CFS chronic fatigue syndrome FITNET-NHS Magenta study myalgic encephalomyocarditis PACE trial Source Type: blogs
Resilience: The Gift You Get from Multiple Failures
I no longer chase happiness.
I believe, much like renowned psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, that you can’t PURSUE happiness. It ensues when you live a meaningful life.
What you CAN chase after is resilience. And I have been pursuing that bad boy with everything I have for the last 10 years.
My self-help bookshelves in the living room, in my bedroom (bad Feng shui, I know), and in my son’s bedroom (where I work) are lined with books that contain the word “resilience” in the subtitle, by authors promising to make me more resilient in 5 or 8, or sometimes 12 steps.
I recently read Stronger: D...
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Books Depression Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Self-Help Coping Skills Failure Personal Growth Resilience Worry Source Type: blogs
Age-Related Decline in Thymic Activity Correlates with Life Span in Dog Breeds
Researchers here report on thymic activity in dog breeds of varying longevity. The thymus plays an important role in the creation of new T cells, but its activity declines with age, most notably in early adulthood via the process of thymic involution, but then further in later life. A lower supply of new immune cells contributes to the age-related decline of the immune system, which is in part a structural problem of too many memory T cells dedicated to specific pathogens and too few naive T cells capable of dealing with new threats. Those threats are not just invading microorganisms, but also harmful senescent and cancero...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 14, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Smoke, Early Menopause And Fertility
Women who smoke and those who have been exposed to second hand smoke have more problems getting pregnant and are more likely to reachmenopause at an earlier age than women who never smoked or those who were exposed to the least amount of second hand smoke. A new investigation from Roswell Park Cancer Institute reached these conclusions after researchers analyzed data on nearly 89,000 women in the U.S. Women who reported smoking were 14 percent more likely to have infertility (meaning that they were unable to get pregnant for a year) and 26 percent more likely to reach menopause earlier than women who didn’t smoke. Th...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News fertility menopause women's health Source Type: blogs
I am a Terrible Doctor; and I ’ m Proud of it
It’s that time again. As the year draws to a close, various insurance plans try to finish collecting data to calculate bonus payments as “incentives” for “Quality” care. The only problem is that, as I’ve written before, all of their “Quality” measures are in fact nothing but proxies for cost, most of which I have no control over.
Back in the 1990s at the beginning of the Managed Care era, the model of the primary physician was that of gatekeeper. Twenty years later, the last vestiges of this model is the wretched “Referral,” a word which used to mean something but...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - October 4, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
24 Creative Geniuses Who Inspire Boldness (Even if You ’re Shy or Socially Anxious)
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“Any step in the direction of expressing your creative impulses is a step in the direction of actualizing the genius that resides within you.” -Dr. Wayne Dyer
Genius? Expressing creative impulses? Isn’t that aiming a little high? I’m just trying to survive.
If this represents the tired record playing in your mind, stick around for some major inspiration.
Per...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rbourne Tags: confidence creativity featured self improvement best inspirational quotes best self-improvement blogs creative genius how to be bold how to build confidence pickthebrain self confidence Source Type: blogs
Beware how the affect heuristic filters your view of data
The Spock in us would like to see data as hard, fixed, and totally interpretable. The Dr. McCoy in us understands that data do not have those properties. Nietzsche once wrote, “There are no facts, only interpretations”
In fact we always interpret “facts” in light of our biases. Our filters come from our preconceived opinions. If we like something, we give great value to “data” that support that belief, while we de-emphasize the negative findings. Vice versa works also.
When you watch the debate, if you like Hiliary Clinton you will cheer her pronouncements and believe them true...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - September 26, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2016
This study included 647 patients 80 to 106 years of age who had audiometric evaluations at an academic medical center (141 had multiple audiograms). The degree of hearing loss was compared across the following age brackets: 80 to 84 years, 85 to 89 years, 90 to 94 years, and 95 years and older. From an individual perspective, the rate of hearing decrease between 2 audiograms was compared with age. The researchers found that changes in hearing among age brackets were higher during the 10th decade of life than the 9th decade at all frequencies for all the patients (average age, 90 years). Correspondingly, the annual rate of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How Going Paleo Saved My Life
I have been fascinated by the entire Paleo and Primal movement that has exploded over the last few years.
Initially seen as a fad diet craze by most, similar to the Atkins Diet, it has gathered momentum and not a little medical support.
It has also been adopted by a great many athletes, which can be seen as a litmus test for such things as you don’t easily persuade triathletes and other endurance athletes to switch from tried and tested ‘carb loading’ prior to events.
I experimented with going Paleo in 2010, but never stuck at it even though during my research I couldn’t find anybody who had stuck to ...
Source: A Daring Adventure - September 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Guest Posts paleo primal Source Type: blogs
The Women ’s Health Amendment Is Getting An Update. What Should It Include?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most private health plans in the United States to cover four sets of recommended preventive services without copayments, deductibles, or other out-of-pocket costs. One of those four sets of services focused on women’s preventive care needs. It was called for under the law’s Women’s Health Amendment, developed by an Institute of Medicine panel, and officially incorporated by the federal government into health plans’ requirements in 2012. Taken as a whole, the ACA’s preventive services provision requires coverage of a wide array of sexual and reproductive health services, from...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adam Sonfield Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Public Health Quality ACA contraceptive coverage HIV/AIDS sexually transmitted infections Women's Health Source Type: blogs
What ’s it like to be a child and your sibling is diagnosed with cancer?
By Christian Jarrett
When the dreadful news arrives that a child has cancer, understandably the focus of parents and health professionals turns to supporting the sick child as best they can. But also caught up in the nightmare are the child’s siblings. Not only will they likely be consumed by shock and fear, but they must adapt to the cancer journey the whole family has to embark on.
Official health guidance here in the UK and in the USA states that it’s important to provide support to the siblings of children with cancer. Yet the reality is we know relatively little about their experience. A new study in Cli...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: Cancer Health Positive psychology Qualitative Source Type: blogs
New Study Warns of the Dangers of Multiple Vaccinations
Conclusion
Neil Z. Miller has outlined some extremely alarming facts and the situation could be far worse, with many adverse reactions left unreported. However, despite his efforts, no mainstream media outlet has reported on this factual and evidence-based paper.
Facts are facts, and we, at VacTruth, believe that the time has come to put a stop to this madness. We urge parents to send a copy of Miller’s paper to all relevant health and government departments before it is too late.
References
https://vactruth.com/2015/04/23/baby-dies-after-13-vaccines/
http://www.jpands.org/vol21no2/miller.pdf
http://www.harpocratesspeak...
Source: vactruth.com - September 8, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England, BA Hons Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories Multiple Vaccines truth about vaccines Vaccine Death vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
August 2016 Palliative Care Review
by Christian SinclairSome August highlights from non-core HPC journals focusing on palliative care and hospice topics. Anyone who would like to explore any article in depth for a future Pallimed post iswelcome to contact us.Nondisclosure by Dr. Abby Rosenberg, published in JAMA, is a wonderful opportunity to examine if we are doing the right thing for a patient. Having reconnected with the mother of a teenage patient who died 6 years ago, the doctor and the mother were able to talk about the struggle to disclose to Sam, the patient, that he was dying. Dr. Paul Rousseau offers a great analysis of the faulty-thinki...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 31, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer CPR ethics geriatrics JAMA journal article narrative opioids pain research review surgery Source Type: blogs
Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
This report outlines such egregious failings as outcome thresholds that overlapped with entry criteria, mid-trial promotion of the therapies under investigation, failure to provide the original results as outlined in the protocol, failure to adhere to a specific promise in the protocol to inform participants about the investigators’ conflicts of interest, and other serious lapses.
Virology Blog first posted the open letter in November, with six signatories (link to letter). At that time, Dr. Horton’s office responded that he would reply after returning from “traveling.” Three months later, we still...
Source: virology blog - August 29, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary adaptive pacing therapy chronic fatigue syndrome cognitive behavior therapy graded exercise therapy mecfs myalgic encephalomyelitis PACE trial specialist medical care The Lancet Source Type: blogs
